Uswa
- Gender
- Girl
- Say it
- OOS-wa
- Origin
- Arabic
- UK rank, 2025
- #4,935 for girls
Uswa is a girls' name of Arabic origin, meaning “example, role model”. In 2025 it ranked 4,935th for girls in the UK (4 babies).
What does Uswa mean?
Arabic
“example, role model”
The Quran (33:21) calls the Prophet an uswa hasana, an excellent example.
Is Uswa a girl's or a boy's name?
Uswa is a girls' name. In 2025, it was given to 4 girls in the UK. Too few boys were given it to be listed.
How popular is Uswa in the UK?
- Rank in 2025
- #4,935among girls
- Babies in 2025
- 4about 1 in 70,000 girls
- Five-year trend
- Fallingdown 43% in five years
- Same name in a class
- under 1%chance among 15 girls
In 2025, 4 girls in the UK were named Uswa, making it the 4,935th most popular name for girls. Five years earlier, in 2020, it was 2,268th. Its busiest year was 2020, with 12 girls.
Half of all the girls named Uswa in the UK since 1996 were born between 2011 and 2020, the years shaded on the chart below.
Among girls in 2025, it was 4,866th in England and Wales.
Uswa in the UK, year by year
| Year | Girls | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 4 | #4,935 |
| 2024 | 3 | #5,966 |
| 2023 | 10 | #2,640 |
| 2022 | 5 | #4,168 |
| 2021 | 6 | #3,697 |
| 2020 | 12 | #2,268 |
| 2019 | 10 | #2,590 |
| 2018 | 8 | #3,068 |
| 2017 | 4 | #4,967 |
| 2016 | 7 | #3,389 |
| 2015 | 4 | #4,951 |
| 2014 | 5 | #4,187 |
| 2013 | 6 | #3,719 |
| 2012 | 10 | #2,666 |
| 2011 | 11 | #2,393 |
| 2010 | 5 | #4,220 |
| 2009 | 7 | #3,201 |
| 2008 | 4 | #4,742 |
| 2007 | 3 | #5,415 |
| 2006 | 5 | #3,724 |
| 2005 | 3 | #4,976 |
| 2004 | 0 | – |
| 2003 | 0 | – |
| 2002 | 0 | – |
| 2001 | 1 | #5,353 |
Names like Uswa
Names given in the same years and the same naming tradition, with a similar sound.
Safa Hafsa Hiba Zainab Amira Rahma Khadija Abeeha Ayah Huda Arwa Ayra
More Arabic names
Muhammad Layla Mohammed Lyla Mohammad Zara Aaliyah Amir Fatima Ali Yahya Zayn Aisha Omar Zahra Hamza
Sources
Figures from Baby names in England and Wales (Office for National Statistics), Babies' first names (National Records of Scotland) and Baby names (Northern Ireland Statistics and Research Agency). Nameling last updated them on 20 October 2026. How the figures are worked out, and the data to download.
To cite this page: Nameling, “Uswa: name meaning, origin and popularity”, https://www.nameling.co.uk/names/uswa, updated 20 October 2026.